[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:49:03 -0000

AR>> >>Here in the US, one can say utterly barbaric things and
> everyone will smile politely. Nobody seems to take words
> seriously. Maybe it's too much liberal tolerance.

EY>>  No, Andreas, it's called freedom of speech.

wrong.  Freedom of speech is a right (a qualified right, even
under the
First  Amendment).  But those who exercise it have no right to do
so
without critique.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:05 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot



>
  It's the same
> freedom of speech that allows you to construct racist
> generalizations like:
>
> "Everyone outside the USA can see how the Bush White House
> dealt with the Arabs in Iraq and the Blacks in New Orleans."
>
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